Tag Archives: Attorneys Fees

WASHINGTON – With millions of dollars at stake in this case alone, Supreme Court justices appeared divided Feb. 25 on whether lawyers for companies in bankruptcy proceedings are entitled to compensation for defending the fees they request or have already ...

Lawyers handling domestic relations appeals could have a mechanism for an award of attorneys’ fees under one proposal approved by the Boyd-Graves conference this year. The annual meeting of the civil procedure study group concluded Oct. 25 with six recommendations ...

When two lawyers left a law firm hired to handle major trade secret litigation, taking that bit of business with them, the law firm promptly filed a lien in Virginia for its legal fees. The trade secret litigation concluded with ...

Amid calls for reform in the claim-clogged federal black lung program, a Virginia lawyer is hoping to strike a blow for lawyers who handle the complex and lengthy compensation cases. Joseph E. Wolfe of Norton has filed five lawsuits asking ...

A contractor that had to scramble to keep a government job when its performance bond was rejected used a false advertising claim in federal court to recover the $138,005 premium it paid for the unsuccessful bond. The company also was ...

Denouncing what he said were frivolous arguments and delaying tactics designed to stifle online criticism, a Lynchburg federal judge has tossed a Baptist minister’s copyright infringement claims and ordered him to pay $34,262.50 in attorney’s fees. In making the fee ...

A Norfolk lawyer is out more than $23,000 on his fee for a lengthy, complicated and emotion-wracked court-appointed case because the state ran out of money as his bill came up for payment at the end of the fiscal year. ...

WASHINGTON — The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court wrangled over the language of a statute that allows prevailing parties in certain patent infringement cases to recoup attorney’s fees ­— an issue that could mean millions of dollars in already ...

WASHINGTON — The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court considered on Tuesday whether an award of contractual attorney fees is part of a final judgment, or a collateral determination made after a judgment The answer in the case of Ray ...

When your client wins a case against the federal government, there is a chance to collect attorney’s fees if a court decide the government’s position was not “substantially justified.” A court taking a later look at whether the government acted ...